Interior Designers in Florida
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$51,081
after federal, FICA and Florida tax
Tax takes
$9,779
16.1% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$49,377
Florida costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Florida — roughly, since only five points along the band are published.
One filer, standard deduction, no dependants and nothing paid in before tax — the same household the rest of this page uses, so the comparison holds. City and school-district income taxes are not included.
Median here
$60,860
Kept after tax
$51,081
Worth in national money
$49,377
State rank
38
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- The nominal figure here is modest. Florida pays interior designers a middle wage of $60,860, 38 of 49 states and about 9.42% below the national middle. Hold that thought until the adjusted numbers.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. Interior designers ranks 194 among 493 occupations Florida publishes pay for.
- Costs eat into it here. Of $60,860, tax leaves $51,081 — and because Florida is dearer than average, that stretches only as far as $49,377 would nationally. Averages run higher here, $65,980, since top earners drag the number up.
- Florida's $60,860 median for interior designers places it 38 of 49 states, about 9.42% below national. Because both the tax and price adjustments tend to favor lower-nominal states, this ranking is the least stable of the three reported here.
- Position 194 of 493 in Florida places interior designers in the middle of the state's wage distribution. Because within-state and cross-state rankings measure different things, this figure and the national one above should be read together rather than as a single verdict.
- After tax, $51,081 remains from the Florida median of $60,860 for this occupation. Applying the state's above-average price parity yields $49,377 in national-average terms — the quantity relevant to a relocation decision, and the one absent from essentially every published wage comparison. Mean pay of $65,980 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Interior Designers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $39,050 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $60,860 |
| Top tenth earn over | $96,930 |
| This salary | $60,860 |
Positions between the published tenth, quarter, half, three-quarter and ninetieth points are estimated by straight line.
The same pay, somewhere else
The state median for this job
| Take-home in Florida | $51,081 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $51,081 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$3,189 |
The raise and the real gain point in opposite directions here.
State income tax and state price levels only. No city income tax, and no housing market.
What you would need there
The state median for this job
| To match take-home only | $60,860 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$3,857 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 103 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Florida earn less than $60,860. The published range is $39,050 up to $96,930, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- In Florida the take-home figure of $51,081, from $60,860, assumes one filer, no dependants, and nothing paid into a pension before tax. Each of those lowers the bill, so treat it as the plain case. City and school-district income taxes are not included either, and in a few states those are real money. It ranks 194 of 493 occupations here.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $49,377 uses one figure for the whole of Florida. A city and a rural county there can differ by more than two states do. Out of 493 occupations the state publishes, this one sits at 194.
- Reported values are medians; for interior designers in Florida the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $39,050 to $96,930. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Take-home for Florida is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $51,081 from $60,860. Each omitted item reduces taxable income, so the figure is a lower bound on retained pay for this household shape. Municipal and school-district income taxes are excluded, which understates the burden materially in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland. The occupation ranks 194 of 493 locally.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $49,377, worked from $60,860, deflates by a statewide parity that conceals substantial intra-state variation, concentrated in housing — so it supports comparison between states rather than the pricing of a move to a particular Florida address, on work sitting at 194 of 493 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $65,980, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
The label is broader than the work. From $39,050 at the bottom tenth to $96,930 at the top, the same title covers roles that share little beyond a name.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
The number and the value are different things. Florida costs more than the national average, so this take-home stretches like $49,377 rather than its face figure.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $51,081 of this wage reaches your account, because Florida takes no income tax from wages — but federal tax, Social Security and Medicare still apply exactly as they do everywhere else.
Why is this job missing from some states?
Because the survey suppresses a figure when too few employers report it. This occupation has published pay in 49 states — the rest are withheld to protect confidentiality, which is not the same as nobody doing the work there.
How does the published median differ from the mean for this occupation?
The median is the midpoint of the distribution; the mean for this occupation in Florida is $65,980. Wage distributions are right-skewed, so the mean exceeds the median wherever a minority earn substantially more. BLS publishes both because substituting one for the other misstates a typical worker's pay.
What drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($39,050) and the ninetieth ($96,930) exceeds the family median dispersion. SOC codes aggregate roles differing in seniority, industry and specialisation, and BLS does not disaggregate below the detailed occupation level, so within-title variance is not separable from the published series.
How does the state price level affect real compensation?
Florida's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $49,377 in national-average terms. ⚠️ RPPs are an all-items index; housing parities vary far more widely than the headline figure.
Why is the take-home ratio comparatively high in this state?
Florida levies no personal income tax on wages, so take-home of $51,081 reflects the federal layer and FICA alone. Federal income tax and FICA are unchanged; states without a wage income tax generally recover revenue through consumption and property bases instead.
Why does this occupation lack published estimates in every state?
BLS suppresses estimates failing disclosure or reliability criteria. This occupation has published state-level estimates in 49 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.